Posted on 02/16/2019 5:45:10 PM PST by greeneyes
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, which is apparently next to Frostbite Falls, MN! My cucumber seeds arrived from Parks Seed, and are saffely stashed where I won’t be able to find them, come spring!
I need to start work on the cold frame for one of our larger, raised beds in “Barb’s” garden area. It will use up some plywood scraps as well as give hope for spring.
At least, my pellet stove is keeping my shop toasty warm.
Snow! Snow! Snow! Then a thaw which means ice everywhere and then howling winds an more SNOW. Just a general PITA winter season, here!
But - we’ve had very easy winters the past 3 or 4, so we were due. I have FB postings from February 2017 and 2018 with no snow on the ground and the dogs lounging on the sunny front porch!
I’ve got my seeds ordered and most of them in hand already, though I don’t need to start anything until Early March...which is only 2 weeks away. Yay! :)
I ordered from Jung’s (of course) and Totally Tomatoes (also owned by Jung’s) and Botanical Interests and Burpee. I can easily get some of the basics for my porch pots, and herbs at my local Walmart. They sell Bonnie-Brand started veggie plants & herbs.
I’ll also make a trek to see my friend Steve at Cushman’s Greenhouse in Belmont, WI - I used to order all of my Poinsettia from him for my Jung Garden Center; he’s got an awesome spring set up - LOTS of Eye Candy, for sure. :)
Upcoming projects are adding 4 more raised growing beds (bringing my total to 18!) and then two beds on the south and west sides of the new greenhouse; one dedicated to Roses and one dedicated to Perennial Herbs. The greenhouse area had to be filled in, elevated and leveled, so that leaves those two sides with too-steep-to-mow areas and terraced beds there will solve that problem and give me more growing space.
Happy, Happy! :)
We found a buyer for some old barn wood that we have; it’s going to a gal in a local town who will use it as a wall feature/paneling in her new shop that is opening in March, so one more pile OUT of the barn that we’ll be tearing down in the future & rebuilding.
Other than that, everyone that I love (people & pets!) is healthy and happy, though Beau did lose his 89 year old Dad this past month. (Not unexpected.) Nice memorial service; he was a Korean War Vet, so we had the whole 21 Gun Salute and American Flag presentation ceremony. It was very moving.
We’ll be planting a memorial tree on The Family Farm come Spring. :)
My favorite blueberry farm is shutting down this year. I’m sad, but I was able to buy two six-foot bushes from them and may be going back for more next weekend.
I transplanted them up against our fence, downhill from a stand of old pine trees to keep the soil the way they like it. And I may or may not have named them George and Barbara.
I got my growing assignment from Baker Creek this week. It does NOT conflict with anything I was hoping to grow. Woohoo!!!
My assignment is to grow 1600 eggplants. I’m not much of an eggplant person, I had to look up the details on how to save seeds from them. But it should be a fairly simple one. And now that I know what I’m growing, I can finalize my other garden plans.
I counted, and my list for this year is around 50 plants long. Most of them I’m only planting a small amount to try, although I am going to try again to grow 100 pounds of Magic Manna corn. Last year was so damp that most of the crop rotted on the stalk. Also trying for 100 pounds of Beefy Resilient Grex beans. Last year’s crop did really well, so I finally have enough seed stock to try for the larger amounts! If I can grow 100 pounds, Baker Creek might ask me to produce it for them, and they pay really well.
I’m looking forward to testing almost 30 new varieties this year!
And my chickens are looking forward to having that nice big field to play in :)
We’re starting over along this stretch of north Florida gulf coast slammed by Hurricane Michael last October.
All of the mature longleaf pine trees that filtered the sun for my many azaleas were either snapped off or are dead and will fall over soon.
Beautiful zoysia lawn, camellias, all destroyed by salt water.
The entire area is a botanical desert.
/whining.
Hello all from Louisiana ! Spring is working its way to my area just above lake Ponchartrain as the grass is starting to come out of its slumber and I will witness a spring cycle for the first time here . It will be nice to see all of the wildlife and such as it warms up. I hope everyone on the thread is doing well and I look forward to reading (and learning) your posts about your happenings in your areas ! sincerely , John Brady (aka; mythenjoseph)
More snow and ice here in Central Missouri over the weekend.
Nothing going on in the garden aside from waiting on the weather to improve.
Lady Bender ordered some seeds from Jungs and I told her to use your name for a Yugh discount...
LOL! Good luck with that! The owner (who is a nice guy, but is now semi-retired) thinks I moved to IOWA, not just one County over to Iowa COUNTY.
His sons are running the show now. They’re doing a pretty good job, actually. Their website works really well and has improved greatly through the years. The boys were never raised ‘wealthy’ and have all WORKED for the company since they were in their teens. The lone daughter works with Doctors Without Borders and prefers traveling the globe versus working in the family business. ;)
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